CLIA Record Retention Flashcards
1
Q
Director discretion
A
- Citrated plasma
- Whole blood specimens
2
Q
48 hours
A
- Serum / plasma
- CSF
- Body fluids
3
Q
24 hours
A
Urine
4
Q
2 years
A
- Specimen requisitions
- Accession records
- QM records
- PT records
- QC records
- IQCP quality assessment data
- Equipment maintenance / function check records
- Chain of custody records
- Competency assessment records
- Training records
- Instrument printouts
- Patient test results and reports
- Computer system checks
5
Q
2 years past retirement
A
- Test method validation records
- Policies and procedures
- ICQP
- Computer system validation records
- Record of changes to software and major functions of LIS
- Autoverification rules
6
Q
7 days
A
- Blood films
- Stained body fluid slides
- Stained microbiology slides
7
Q
10 years
A
- DTC testing results, including reference intervals
